Articulate covers Michael Cunningham at the Adelaide Writers Festival. 

An article about Michael Cunningham . He has followed up the wonderful The Hours with Specimen Days, linking the city of New York, past, present and future, and Walt Whitman's epic poem Leaves of Grass.

'The surprising success of The Hours showed there was an unacknowledged body of readers who were willing to read an unorthodox book of that kind - it was very liberating.'

'the obligation to do more than one is technically able to'

'Barring outright plagiarism, which of course is wrong, every book published is there for everyone. You have every right to use what comes before you'.'

Speaking of Austen, this made me laugh. 

More Jane Austen TV adaptations : that Andrew Davies is writing the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility assuages some of my feelings that the JA popularity wave is getting out of hand.